MEDICINE - Key Dates Flashcards
What year did the Black Death arrive in Britain?
1348
Printing press invented
1440
Dissolution of Monasteries
1536
Vesalius’ fabric of the human body
1543
William Harvey’s book on circulation pubished
1628
Great Plague arrives in England
1665
Thomas Sydenham publishes “Observations Medicae”
1676
Edward Jenner discovers smallpox vaccine
1796-98
Florence Nightingale treats soldiers in the Crimean War
1854-56
John Snow discovers cholera’s transmitted using the broad street pump
1854
Germ Theory Published by Louis Pasteur
1861
Joseph Lister uses carbolic acid as an antiseptic
1865
Robert Koch prints his 4 hypothesis (Tuberculosis microbe found by Microscope)
1882
William Rontgen discovered XRAYS
1895
RAMC founded
1898
Paul Ehrlich discovers first magic bullet “Salversan 606”
1909-10
Gas attacks begin in WW1
1915
Blood depots used at the battle of Cambrai
1917
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1928
Second magic bullet discoverd “Prontosil”
1932
Florey and Chain develop penicillin
1941
NHS launched
1948
Franklin, Watson and Crick discover DNA structure
1953
Clean Air Act passed
1956
Great Stink
1858
Geoffrey Hounsfield created CAT scans - create 3D images of human body.
1972
Endoscope Probes developed to look inside body
1976
MRI Scanning developed
1987
Free Vaccines available to be given in the UK
1946-69
National Insurance Act Introduced to provided those in employment sick pay.
1911
It provided those with employment sick pay.
However, if you were unemployed you were not guaranteed healthcare.
Health ads put on packets of cigarettes
2016
Clean Air Act passed
1956 / 68
The Beveridge report is passed by William Beveridge.
1942
Khaki Election
Labour win in a landslide despite the conservative opponents carrying Britain through the war.
1945
The London Smog
1952
Tuberculosis microbe discovered by Koch
1882
What year was the sewer system completed?
1875
